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Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First (and only) edition of Hemingway's first book, one of only 300 copies printed, this copy with a warm inscription from the author to the editors of The Little Review, the "little magazine" in Paris that had published his first mature prose work the same year: "For j.h. and Margaret Anderson with love from Hemingway" ("j.h." being Jane Heap).
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36116 | Feb 8, 2012

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Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition, one of 750 printed, with the following points: (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36137 | Feb 8, 2012

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Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. Number 40 of 50 specially-bound copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Cather on the limitation page.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36096 | Feb 8, 2012

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Charles Dickens. Christmas Books, (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36101 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ian Fleming. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959]. First edition. Inscribed by Fleming, "To / Gerald Micklem, / This piece - of / homework! / from / Ian Fleming" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 318 pages.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36152 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Alexander Pope, translator]. Homer. The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintott, 1715-1720. [Together With:] [Alexander Pope, translator]. Homer. The Odyssey of Homer. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1725-1726. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36139 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Pony Express Bible]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. New York: American Bible Society, 1857 (New Testament title page dated 1857). Thick pocket-sized volume (5.5 x 3.5 inches, 139 x 89 mm.), bound in eights. 1,278 double-columned pages. In original custom leather binding, with a series of decorative borders and ovoid shapes blind-stamped to boards, and with decorative blind-stamping and gilt lettering on spine. "PRESENTED BY / RUSSELL, MAJORS & WADDELL / 1858" in gilt at center of front board. Leather binding quite rubbed with some loss of leather at spine ends and extremities. Gilt lettering rubbed. Repairs to joints. Intermittent foxing. Over-opened at page 590/591 and quite tender. Biblical notations in pencil to verso of New Testament title page. Ink numbers on rear pastedown. With names of three owners on front free endpaper: Hettie Jane Bruce, W. D. Fletcher, and Clara Fletcher. At bottom of page is written "Hettie Jane Bruce's book / 1858." A complete copy of a "Pony Express Bible" in its original, though worn, binding. In generally very good condition. Very rare, with very few extant copies located.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36016 | Feb 8, 2012

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Guillelmus Duranti. Rationale divinorum officiorum. [Paris: Ulrich [Gering], Martin [Crantz], and Michael [Friburger], 13 April 1475].
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36045 | Feb 8, 2012

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Dr. Seuss [Theodore Geisel]. Original Pen-and-Ink and Watercolor Drawing of a Dog Wearing a Scary Mask and Frightening Three Cats. [N.p., n.d., ca. 1935]. Approximately 6.5 x 10 inches.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36086 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963]. First edition. Inscribed by Fleming, "To / my dear friend / Henry / from / Ian Fleming" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 288 pages.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36153 | Feb 8, 2012

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Lieut.-General R. S. S. Baden Powell C. B. Scouting for Boys. A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship. London: Published by Horace Cox, [1908]. First edition, first issue.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36069 | Feb 8, 2012

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Jean Jacques Rousseau. A Treatise on the Social Compact; or The Principles of Politic Law. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764. First edition in English.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36038 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Salvador Dali, Illustrator]. Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Twelve Illustrations with Original Woodcuts and an Original Etching by Salvador Dali. New York: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36071 | Feb 8, 2012

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Saint Augustine. Of the Citie of God. With the Learned Comments of Jo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H. [London]: Printed by George Eld, 1610. First edition in English of Saint Augustine's De civitate Dei (first published in Subiaco in 1467).
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36043 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Pocket Books]. A Very Large Group of Pocket Books, Including a Complete Run of the First 1,257 Titles. New York: Pocket Books, in association with Simon and Schuster, [1939-1960]. Mixed printings throughout (title #1, Lost Horizon, is a fourth printing). All mass market paperbacks. Numbers 1-1257 are all present; this collection also with numbers 1258-1278 (missing six numbers). 1,272 total books in this lot, all in very good or better condition. (Total: 1272 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36135 | Feb 8, 2012

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Richard Avedon. An Autobiography. [New York: Random House, 1993]. First edition, one of 250 numbered copies (this being number 73) signed boldly by Avedon on the front free endpaper. Folio. [8], [389 unnumbered pages of black and white photographs], [31] pages. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36050 | Feb 8, 2012

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Samuel Augustus Mitchell. Description of Oregon and California, Embracing an Account of the Gold Regions... With a Large and Accurate Map of Oregon and California, Compiled from the Latest Authorities. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1849.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36014 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Thomas Hardy]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of 'Desperate Remedies.' In Two Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36111 | Feb 8, 2012

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Joseph Lavallée (Louis-François Cassas). Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie. Rédigé d'Après L'Itinéraire de L. F. Cassas, Par Joseph Lavallée...
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36029 | Feb 8, 2012

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Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three Volumes. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Chamberlaine, W. Watson, [et. al.]: 1776. First Dublin edition, published the same year as the true first edition (London). (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36040 | Feb 8, 2012

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Geoffrey Chaucer. The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in printe before: With the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly dooeth appere. [London: Imprinted...by Jhon Kyngston, for Jhon Wight, 1561]. Fifth edition, second issue, and the first edition edited by John Stowe.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36097 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition, first printing, with a perfect "3" on page 3. Octavo. 232 pages. Publisher's black cloth with gold paper labels on front board and spine, stamped in black.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36114 | Feb 8, 2012

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Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Bernard-Germain-Étienne, Comte de Lacepede. Naturgeschichte [Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]. Berlin: Joachim Pauli and others, 1771-1809. (Total: 69 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36027 | Feb 8, 2012

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[John Peter Zenger]. Charles F. Heartman Presents John Peter Zenger and His Fight for the Freedom of the American Press. Together With A Genuine Specimen of the New York Weekly Journal Printed by John Peter Zenger. Highland Park, New Jersey: Harry B. Weiss, 1937.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36023 | Feb 8, 2012

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Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36041 | Feb 8, 2012

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[William Everson, printer.] Robinson Jeffers. Granite & Cypress: Rubbings from the Rock. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36063 | Feb 8, 2012

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Thomas Hardy. Desperate Remedies. A Novel. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36110 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Octavo. [viii], [1]-143 pages. Publisher's smooth dark green cloth with red titles stamped on the front cover and spine. Original pictorial dust jacket printed in orange, black, and tan, with the front cover drawing by "M. F." depicting a lunch counter scene.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36117 | Feb 8, 2012

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Jack Kerouac. On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Octavo. [vi], [1]-310, [4, blank] pages.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36122 | Feb 8, 2012

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Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first issue jacket (with $3.50 price intact and no mention of the Caldecott Award on the jacket flaps, nor with the metallic medal sticker on the front of the jacket).
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36082 | Feb 8, 2012

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Norman Mailer. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Company, [1948]. First edition, first state with dust jacket blurb by Stanley Rinehart. Octavo. 721 pages. Publisher's black cloth with white titles on spine, and dust jacket with $4.00 price.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36127 | Feb 8, 2012

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Stephen King. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. [West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., [1982]. First edition, number 196 of 500 deluxe limited edition copies signed by Stephen King and Michael Whelan
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36167 | Feb 8, 2012

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George Washington. Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress, Written, during the War between the United Colonies and Great-Britain, by His Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces: (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36021 | Feb 8, 2012

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[William Shakespeare]. [John and Josiah Boydell, printers]. A Collection of Prints from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeare. London: John and Josiah Boydell, 1802-1803. First edition of the magnificent copper plate engravings from Boydell's Shakespeare, long regarded as the most beautiful illustrations of Shakespeare's plays. Approximately 28 x 21.5 inches. Two large folio volumes bound into one.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36087 | Feb 8, 2012

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John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, [1937]. First edition, first issue, with the correct issue points per Goldstone & Payne. Inscribed and signed in the year of publication by Steinbeck,
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36142 | Feb 8, 2012

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John W. Campbell, Jr., Otis Adelbert Flagg, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Edmond Hamilton, A. Merritt, Edward E. Smith, et al. Rare "Cosmos" Serial 17 Issues Complete. Jamaica [New York]: Science Fiction Digest Company, [1934]. 5.5" x 7.75". Pamphlet format. Staple holes present in all issues but no staples are present. All issues have some toning; some issues have lightly bent corners and edge wear but overall the condition is near fine. (Total: 18 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36151 | Feb 8, 2012

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Philip Jose Farmer. The Green Odyssey. New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. First edition, first printing. With a delightful inscription signed by the author
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36164 | Feb 8, 2012

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George Eliot. The Writings of George Eliot. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Large-Paper Edition, one of 750 numbered copies (this copy number 81). Complete in twenty-five octavo volumes. (Total: 25 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36062 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. First edition. Number 33 of 200 limited edition copies, signed by Bradbury on the limitation page. Additionally inscribed and signed by Bradbury
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36147 | Feb 8, 2012

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Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury in the year of publication to Jack Cordes,
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36161 | Feb 8, 2012

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Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy, including: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 1994, 1998. First editions. Each volume signed by the author, All the Pretty Horses signed on the title-page, (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36128 | Feb 8, 2012

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom. The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960. Early edition ("K-I"), boldly inscribed and signed by Dr. King, "Best Wishes / Martin L King Jr." on the front free endpaper.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36012 | Feb 8, 2012

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Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1781-1788. Fourth edition of Volume I, first editions of the five remaining quarto volumes. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36028 | Feb 8, 2012

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[Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, A. M. Cassandre, et al., illustrators]. Jean de La Fontaine. 20 Fables. Paris: C. de Acevedo, [1966]. First edition, one of 41 Hors Commerce numbered copies out of a total edition of 440, (this being copy number H. C. 35).
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36052 | Feb 8, 2012

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Mao Zedong. Mao zhuxi yulu. [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [May 1964]. First edition, first state, of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book," after the Bible the most printed text in the world.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36032 | Feb 8, 2012

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Pierre Pomet. Histoire Generale des Drogues, traitant des Plantes, des Animaux & des Mineraux;
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36036 | Feb 8, 2012

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Theodore Dreiser. The Financier. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First edition. Octavo. 779 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth, stamped in gold and blue. Original printed dust jacket. A bright, crisp copy with very light rubbing to foot of cloth spine. Dust jacket is toned along the edges and spine, with light edge wear and chipping at the corners and spine ends. Jacket lightly toned with minor wear along edges and an area of discoloration to right side of front panel; quarter-sized area of surface loss to spine panel above publisher's name. A sharp, square copy in better than very good condition.
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36103 | Feb 8, 2012

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[California Gold Rush]. J. A. & D. F. Read, illustrators. Journey to the Gold Diggins by Jeremiah Saddlebags. New York: Stringer and Townsend, [1849]. First American edition, simultaneous with Cincinnati. Oblong twelvemo. 63 pages. With pictorial title and
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36017 | Feb 8, 2012

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